The Pleasure of Being Left Alone – The Marginalian
There is a form of being together that feels as easy and spacious as being alone, when your experience is […]
On Change and Denial – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova Central to our ambivalence about change is the fundamental difficulty of letting go. I am not sure
The Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Love and the Meaning of Respect – The Marginalian
“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love,” the great Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh wrote
Kierkegaard on the Passion for Possibility and the Key to Resetting Relationships – The Marginalian
Some of the most difficult moments in life are moments of having to choose between two paths leading in opposite
Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other – The Marginalian
One of the hardest things to learn in life is that the heart is a clock too fast not to
Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship – The Marginalian
“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being,” James Baldwin wrote in
The Psychology of Withstanding Absence and Missing Someone You Love – The Marginalian
With its fusion of frustration and hope, waiting is one of the most singularly maddening human experiences, and one of
The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning – The Marginalian
One September dawn on the verge of a significant life change, sitting on my poet friend’s dock, I watched a
Winnicott on the Psychology of Democracy, the Most Dangerous Type of Person, and the Unconscious Root of Resisting Women Leaders – The Marginalian
In the late morning of the first day of August in 2023, exactly twenty summers after I arrived in Philadelphia